As Cuadrilla's application to frack in Lancashire goes to public inquiry today, protestors from Greenpeace have installed a full-size 'fracking rig' in Parliament Square, London, complete with flare and deafening sound effects, to let MP's know just how great it is to have a fracking well on your doorstep.
… UK Politics Fossil Fuels Corporations Finance frack-dawn-cut.jpg As Cuadrilla's …
The Guardian Media Group is to divest its £800m fund from fossil fuels over five years. The terms of its promise appeared to leave the door open to natural gas and fracking, But GMG now insists that it aims to ditch all fossil fuels within five years.
… April 2015 News Fossil Fuels Climate Change Finance Media Corporations gas-hob-cut.jpg The …
Oil giant BP is the UK's single biggest EU lobbyist, spending over £2 million reaching out to European policy makers in 2014, new figures show. But citing hard times, the company has dropped its controversial sponsorship of the London's Tate Galleries - and more such branding deals may bite the dust.
… | 14th March 2016 News Corporations Arts Finance Fossil Fuels Oil Pollution oil-coated …
Students, workers and civil rights activists gathered in their hundreds today in Delhi to protest at the mining company Vedanta, and the Indian government's support of highly destructive mining projects in forests and on indigenous peoples' lands.
… clauses in the Land Acquisition Bill and the Finance Ministry's proposals to disinvest its …
Greenland's first female prime minister is on a modernising drive to prosperity and independence, But will the combination of melting glaciers, oil, mining projects and mass immigration bring wealth or destruction?
… costs for the project, which is not yet fully financed. Maybe that's not so surprising. …